| Comments | Wolfe Lake and Moncton NB, February 2, 2003. Ice storms resulted in 40-60 mm of frozen rain coating the region and at Wolfe Lake, 58.3 mm of freezing rain was recorded as falling. Winds reached 75 km/hr generating a wind chill of minus 27 degrees centigrade. Schools closed for one week. More than 63,000 residences were left without power and phone services due to the downed power lines, which were a direct result of the weight of freezing rain atop the infrastructure. There were a huge number of livestock fatalities, extensive damages to barns and silos, and maple sugar wood lots were damaged. |